Dictionary Check: displacement

"displacement" is a valid word!

Scrabble 19 points
Words with Friends 24 points

Definition

noun

act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

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an event in which something is displaced without rotation

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the act of uniform movement

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(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

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(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

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to move something from its natural environment

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